June 11, 2010: Across the country, UPS is disciplining drivers for failing to maintain their SPOHR or maintain their “demonstrated work performance.” TDU’s “Protecting Yourself from UPS Production Harassment” workshop shows drivers how to protect yourself everyday. Find out: How to protect yourself everyday by following UPS’s methods. What to do on an OJS and when you get called into the office. How to dismantle the company’s case and win your grievance if management comes...

May 20, 2010: UPS Airlines, a division of United Parcel Service Inc., will furlough 54 pilots Sunday, the first of 300 pilots slated to be grounded in an attempt by the shipper to cut costs and streamline its operations. Read more at The Business Journal.

April 30, 2010: John Youngermann, a TDU member and UPS feeder driver out of the Earth City, Missouri, hub won an important OSHA ruling that supported a driver’s right to refuse to drive unsafe equipment. On April 22, 2010, OSHA awarded Youngermann compensatory and punitive damages as well as back pay with overtime and interest. Youngermann phoned the company to try to get the equipment repaired without success, and finally refused to pull a trailer...